“It’s like a Hallmark movie–but with steam.”
Frozen Rose
It’s the week of Valentine’s Day when Jade Benson visits a festive town, hoping to learn some answers about her father whose identity was a mystery until she was thirty. Jade’s blindsided when she runs into the man she fell for eight years ago.
Levi Stone won’t fall in love again. His wife was the ultimate romantic until her love story ended when she passed away from breast cancer. Levi met Jade a month after Sky died and, while there was intense passion, it was too soon to risk opening his heart. Instead, he broke hers.
Jade can’t forgive Levi for how he treated her in the past, despite encountering red roses—Sky’s favorite flower and symbol she said she’d use to play matchmaker after she died. Jade distracts herself with what she’s learned about her father and discovering that she’s more like her mother than she thought.
“Frozen Rose, at its core, is about a mother-daughter relationship when a betrayal is revealed. Written in a style that shows the parallels between Mother and Daughter, Frozen Rose is about a woman’s journey through empathy. It’s true-to-life.” (For readers, the book’s style is similar to authors Emily Giffin, Tara Taylor Quinn, Tracey Garvis Graves, Kerry Lonsdale, or the book Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks)
*Contains sexual content. Categories: Contemporary women’s fiction, family issues, infidelity, spirituality, single parent, small town romance, second chance romance, matchmaker, widow, mother-daughter, long-lost-family, sisters fiction, Valentine’s Day/holiday romance, amateur sleuth.
Interview Question: Why does this book have a different last name than your others? I didn’t realize until after my first two books were published that there are actually a few authors named Andrea Rodgers so we’re often mistaken for each other. Also, The 20th Christmas and Caged Dove were Christian fiction while Frozen Rose is mainstream (although all three have a love story-mystery combo). Readers will recognize “my voice” no matter what genre I write. :)
As for going from two “clean” stories to a sexual subject matter in Frozen Rose, I believe spirituality and sexuality are both important and positive components to being human. I write about the entirety of characters so my goal is to portray people who make mistakes and try to improve themselves, don’t judge, and the self-acceptance that results. My job is to put myself in other people’s shoes. When those who have led lives like my characters thank me and tell me they appreciate how I’ve done well representing them, that’s all I need to feel I did my job.
